Lowell Line
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The Lowell Line is a railroad line of the MBTA Commuter Rail system, running north from Boston to Lowell, Massachusetts. Originally built as the New Hampshire Main Line of the Boston & Lowell Railroad and later operated as part of the Boston & Maine Railroad's Southern Division, the line was one of the first railroads in North America and the first major one in Massachusetts.
An outbound train arriving at Anderson RTC in 2023
Early-20th-century postcard of a train at Lowell Union Station
An MBTA demonstration train at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1979
For a time in 1980-81, some MBTA Commuter Rail trains routed on the New Hampshire Main ran as far up as Concord.
Lowell, Massachusetts
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Lowell is a city in Massachusetts, United States. Alongside Cambridge, it is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of the last census, and the third most populous in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area, called Greater Lowell, and of New England's Merrimack Valley region.
Image: Lowell City Hall; Lowell, MA; southwest side; 2011 08 20
Image: Mill Building (now museum), Lowell, Massachusetts
Image: Coburn Hall
Image: Lowell skyline